Civic tech

CanadaGPT - Canadian Government Accountability & Transparency Platform

Track Canadian MPs, federal bills, parliamentary debates, lobbying activities, and government spending. Access comprehensive data on House of Commons proceedings, committee work, and political accountability with AI-powered insights.

patcon/valency-anndata

Experimental tooling to support notebook analysis of polislike data.

Bikespace

Civic Tech Toronto is a vibrant and diverse community of Torontonians engaged in understanding and creating solutions for civic challenges through technology, design, and other innovative means.

Civic Tech Toronto | A space to learn and collaborate

Civic Tech Toronto is a vibrant and diverse community of Torontonians engaged in understanding and creating solutions for civic challenges through technology, design, and other innovative means.

Connecting Research with Community - Civic Innovation Lab

Welcome to Civic Innovation Lab, where we drive social impact through collaborative solutions and empower communities. Join us in fostering sustainable development, co-creating initiatives, and advancing inclusive governance for a better future.

Civic Health Project

Technology can connect or divide us. At Civic Health Project, we're dedicated to advancing massively scalable solutions to society's dangerous divisions.

Civic Dashboard

Toronto City Council shouldn't feel complicated. We make it easy for Toronto residents to track councillor votes and get involved in local decisions.

Agora Citizen Network

Agora helps people overcome disagreement and find consensus, for more democratic and efficient decision-making.

blacksky-algorithms/assembly.blacksky.community

Blacksky People’s Assembly – a space for public deliberation and collective decision-making.

filaebot/chorus

ATProto-native community notes with bridging-based consensus

'Generative CI' through Collective Response Systems

How can many people (who may disagree) come together to answer a question or make a decision? "Collective response systems" are a type of generative collective intelligence (CI) facilitation process meant to address this challenge. They enable a form of "generative voting", where both the votes, and the choices of what to vote on, are provided by the group. Such systems overcome the traditional limitations of polling, town halls, standard voting, referendums, etc. The generative CI outputs of collective response systems can also be chained together into iterative "collective dialogues", analogously to some kinds of generative AI. Technical advances across domains including recommender systems, language models, and human-computer interaction have led to the development of innovative and scalable collective response systems. For example, Polis has been used around the world to support policy-making at different levels of government, and Remesh has been used by the UN to understand the challenges and needs of ordinary people across war-torn countries. This paper aims to develop a shared language by defining the structure, processes, properties, and principles of such systems. Collective response systems allow non-confrontational exploration of divisive issues, help identify common ground, and elicit insights from those closest to the issues. As a result, they can help overcome gridlock around conflict and governance challenges, increase trust, and develop mandates. Continued progress toward their development and adoption could help revitalize democracies, reimagine corporate governance, transform conflict, and govern powerful AI systems -- both as a complement to deeper deliberative democratic processes and as an option where deeper processes are not applicable or possible.

Plurality

A book by E. Glen Weyl, Audrey Tang and the Plurality Community exploring how technology can support and strengthen democracy.

Magamba Network – We are Africa's trailblazing creative & digital media organisation.

We’re all about using arts, digital media, civic tech & activism to reach young people and get them involved in the big issues of our time. We run some of the most disruptive digital platforms & creative initiatives on the African continent with an online community of over 500,000 young people.

Fundación Mutante - GFMD

Fundación Mutante is the first digital movement of citizen conversation in Colombia. Fundación Muitante calls on our audience to speak, understand and act on the most urgent problems of our time. Through an innovative multichannel digital communication strategy, Mutante invites audiences to actively discuss their issues, building a public agenda from the bottom up, from […]

JamiiAfrica

Deploying Africa’s Civic OS—a decentralized, secure, and AI-driven digital infrastructure that enables citizens to hold authorities accountable while giving institutions credible, data-backed incentives to respond

Sensemaking AI | Jigsaw

Sensemaking is a suite of AI-powered tools designed to help public leaders understand public opinion quickly. By combining AI interviewing with automated reporting, we bridge the gap between individual voices and actionable policy insights.

One year on: The momentum behind Jigsaw’s Sensemaking AI

How our suite of AI tools is helping public leaders bridge the gap between individual voices and concrete policy decisions

Democracy Needs AI That Listens

From Taiwan's deliberative experiments to our own AI policy - featuring jdd-kami, the Civic AI that fits in a carry-on

Information Civics

An exploration of computer-network architectures as civic structures.